There's been a deal of discussion about Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer's CV floating around LinkedIn recently.
The CV is a neat, yet dynamic one-page document, similar to an infographic. It has a nice pie chart which breaks down a typical day's work for Meyer.
Got me thinking I've had something similar for quite some time, so it's nothing new. It also reminded me of my other CVs – five in all.
The reason I have five CVs is to be able to provide something which suits the company I'm pitching to.
The CV is a neat, yet dynamic one-page document, similar to an infographic. It has a nice pie chart which breaks down a typical day's work for Meyer.
Got me thinking I've had something similar for quite some time, so it's nothing new. It also reminded me of my other CVs – five in all.
The reason I have five CVs is to be able to provide something which suits the company I'm pitching to.
In one of them, I have a folder-style layout, which provides a doughnut-style graph of my work breakdown for each position I've held. I have two formalised CVs, both subtly different (one with a slight splash of colour for headings (achievements).
My favourites are my two, single-page CVs. The one I've shown here hardly gets used because I don't reckon there's many HR people (traditionally conservative) who could relate (my work) to the skills and outcomes. A PR or advertising person probably would.
I'm not a HR person but I believe you need several CVs, individually tailored to different organisations; just the same as you tweak the response to criteria to a position.
Now, if I could get a gig at Yahoo, or maybe Google.
My favourites are my two, single-page CVs. The one I've shown here hardly gets used because I don't reckon there's many HR people (traditionally conservative) who could relate (my work) to the skills and outcomes. A PR or advertising person probably would.
I'm not a HR person but I believe you need several CVs, individually tailored to different organisations; just the same as you tweak the response to criteria to a position.
Now, if I could get a gig at Yahoo, or maybe Google.
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